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Don Eusebio Pérez del Castillo established the Gripiñas hacienda in 1858, and for the rest of that century it was the kind of coffee operation that defined highland Puerto Rico's economy. Hurricane San Ciriaco and the Spanish-American War of 1898 broke that era; Pérez and his wife died as it collapsed. The estate passed to Jaime Oliver Mayol, whose coffee won a Grand Prix at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. By 1975, the main house had been converted into a parador — a government-backed guesthouse still operating today.
Quick facts
- ·The Pérez family's coffee operation, like much of the island's coffee sector, declined/collapsed at the end of the 19th century amid Hurricane San Ciriaco (1899) and the disruption of the Spanish-American War (1898), illustrating the precariousness of hacendado-class coffee wealth. (Supported by the cited Wikipedia text: 'Pérez and his wife died late in the 19th century, as the coffee plantation industry decayed in the island because of Hurricane San Ciriaco (1899) and the Spanish–American War (1898).' 'Collapsed' is a slightly stronger word than the source's 'decayed' -- recommend tightening to 'declined' or 'decayed' for precision -- but the causal claim and timeline are accurate.)
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